Virginia may be for lovers, but to nineteen authors, Virginia is for More Mysteries. The anthology of nineteen short stories, set in and around the Commonwealth, features Virginia landmarks and locations such as Virginia Wine Country, Poe Museum, Luray Caverns, Colonial Williamsburg, Great Dismal Swamp, Nimrod Hall, Barter Theater, and Mill Mountain, to name a few. The stories transport readers across the diverse backdrop of the Old Dominion to a unique and deadly landscape, filled with killers, crooks, and criminals. (Sisters in Crime)
Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and a pair of Jack Russell terriers.
Heather writes the Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries and the Delanie Fitzgerald mysteries.
Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of Cabernet, Deadly Southern Charm, and Murder by the Glass, and her dog-themed novellas appear in the Mutt Mysteries series.
She is a member of Sisters in Crime – Central Virginia, SinC-Chessie, Guppies, James River Writers, and International Thriller Writers.
Through the years, she has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager.
I loved the idea behind the collection, and I loved that a writers group got together and made this happen.
It's one of those things I don't want to crit too hard because I appreciate the enthusiasm behind it and there aren't many reviews in GR for it, so I'll say: a few of the stories were more engaging than the others and I would not have read some of them if I didn't get such a kick out of the "set in Virginia" theme, but I only left one unfinished.
As they say, "Virginia isn't just for lovers, it's also for mysteries."
Nineteen Virginia-based authors dish up stories set all around the Old Dominion. These mysteries are set in well-known locations from Appalachia to the Eastern Shore, and they range from the Civil War to modern times. Murder runs amok in Virginia.
My personal favorites from the anthology, not including my own story (pen name Kristin Kisska) "A Colonial Grave", a cold case murder set in Colonial Williamsburg, are "Coming Clean" set along the I-95 corridor, "Spring Cleaning" set near Mill Mountain, and "Corked for Murder" set in a Chesapeake wine shop.